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Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy
Born 3 April 1961, in Brooklyn, New York

Wise words: "The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice."


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Eddie Murphy - news / articles


  • Murphy to portray Pryor in biopic - 28 February 2009
    -Comedian Eddie Murphy has landed his dream role - portraying late, great funnyman Richard Pryor in a new biopic.- -The Beverly Hills Cop actor has reportedly signed up to star in Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? - a project being put together by Dreamgirls dire


  • Murphy: I'll quit movies at 50 - 8 July 2008
    Eddie Murphy has confirmed his recent claims that he is returning to his club roots by announcing he will quit movies when he hits 50.-During his 30 years in the business, Murphy has made nearly 40 films – including hits such as Trading Places, Beverley Hills Cop


  • Murphy enters Nowhereland - 25 January 2007
    Oscar nominee Eddie Murphy is set to star in a new comedy about a man who loses confidence in his high-flying career and seeks happiness in his daughter's imaginary world.-Nowhereland is to be written by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, who wrote Bill & Ted's Excell

Eddie Murphy - what members say


  • Life
  • Life review by from BODMIN
    Rated - 2 stars 13 February 2004
    ...not one of Eddie Murphys best but still is quite amuseing, good little plot and a good cast of charecters....  
  • Coming To America
  • Coming To America review by from tyne and wear
    Rated - 5 stars Murphy in America 21 November 2004
    ...Well. Eddie Murphy certainly proves what a truely talented person he is in this terrific family yarn. Not only does he play the rich royal prince of Zamunda, he also pla...  
  • The Golden Child
  • The Golden Child review by A customer from England
    Rated - 4 stars Great Film !! 16 November 2004
    ...This is Eddie Murphy at the height of his career in the 80's. If you can Handle the somewhat 'dated' special FX then you'll love the 'one liners'. Good Comedy....  

Eddie Murphy - filmography


  • Imagine That (2009)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Thomas Haden Church,  Yara Shahidi
    Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Before he found himself standing in front of his friends' house yelling for his daughter's purple security blanket in the middle of the night, Evan Danielson was just your average financial wizard--focused, successful and driven. But, when his daughter introduced him to the princesses and their ..read more »
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  • Meet Dave on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Elizabeth Banks,  Gabrielle Union
    Director: Brian Robbins
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A massive fireball from space hits New York's Central Park and an ordinary man emerges unscathed. The man turns out to be a spaceship operated by 100 human-looking aliens who are one-quarter inch tall and seeking a way to save their planet; complications ensue when their captain falls in love with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 11,446 members
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  • Norbit - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Thandie Newton,  Cuba Gooding Snr.
    Director: Brian Robbins
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Norbit (Eddie Murphy) is a shy fellow, raised by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy again) in a combination orphanage/Chinese restaurant in Boiling Springs, Tennessee. As a child, Norbit comes to love Kate, a fellow orphan, but the soulmates are separated when Kate is adopted. Enter Rasputia, an aggressive, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 286 members
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  • Dreamgirls - HD DVD Version (2006)
    Starring: Beyonce Knowles,  Danny Glover,  Jennifer Hudson
    Director: Bill Condon
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in 1960s Detroit, DREAMGIRLS follows the commercial and cultural struggles of the R&B recording industry, through the rise of the Dreamettes (later shortened to just the Dreams) from backup singers to headlining international superstars. The trio--Deena (Beyonce Knowles), Effie (Jennifer Hudson)..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 263 members
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  • Daddy Day Care on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Steve Zahn,  Jeff Garlin
    Director: Steve Carr
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Advertising executive Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) leads an idyllic suburban life with his wife, Kim (Regina King), and adorable 4-year-old son, Ben (Khamani Griffin). But when Charlie and his buddy, Phil (Jeff Garlin) are let go from their jobs and can no longer afford to send their offspring to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 9,759 members
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  • I Spy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Owen Wilson,  Gary Cole
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When the Air Force's newest stealth bomber disappears complete with cloaking device, secret agent Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) is sent to Budapest to find it. To Scott's dismay, he is teamed with undefeated middleweight champion Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy), who is slated to fight in Budapest where ..read more »
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  • Showtime on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Eddie Murphy
    Director: Tom Dey
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    SHOWTIME deftly combines clever satire and explosive action, taking the buddy cop movie in a new direction. Robert De Niro stars as Mitch Preston, a no-nonsense detective who makes headlines when he shoots the television camera right out of the hands of a meddlesome photographer during a bust. The ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,242 members
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  • Bowfinger on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  Eddie Murphy,  Heather Graham
    Director: Frank Oz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this Frank Oz film, washed-up director Bobby Bowfinger finds his dream movie script, but not the financing that will make the movie happen. Desperate, Bowfinger stalks and films famous action star Kit Ramsey reacting to his own oddball group of actors, making Kit the movie's hero without his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,195 members
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  • Life on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Martin Lawrence,  Obba Babatunde
    Director: Ted Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a prison comedy underlined by serious social commentary. Rayford Gibson (Murphy), an opportunistic con man, and Claude Banks (Lawrence), an ambitious bank teller, are complete opposites who cross paths in 1930s Harlem. In order to pay off their debts to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,538 members
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  • Doctor Dolittle on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Ossie Davis,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Three features. In 'Doctor Dolittle', a remake of the 1967 Richard Fleischer film of the same name, an animal doctor whose patients bark, squeal, and meow finds that he can suddenly understand his patients, which upsets the practice. Eddie Murphy updates the role as a San Francisco doctor who as a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 7,294 members
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  • Holy Man on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Jeff Goldblum,  Kelly Preston
    Director: Stephen Herek
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Comedy in which Jeff Goldblum's television executive is trying to boost the ratings of a home shopping channel. Into his life comes Eddie Murphy's self styled guru figure whose outrageous ways soon have the viewers tuning in.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,452 members
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  • Metro on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Michael Rapaport,  Michael Wincott
    Director: Thomas Carter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Hostage negotiator Scott Roper's wisecracking personality and devil-may-care manner might sometimes arouse the ire of his sergeant, but he's the only man for the job when a demented killer terrorizes the streets of San Francisco. A textbook role for Murphy, who also executive produces.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,348 member
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  • Vampire In Brooklyn on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Angela Bassett,  Allen Payne
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: FREE
    Eddie Murphy is Maximillian, the last of a race of vampires from the Caribbean who travels to New York in search of Rita (Angela Bassett), an NYPD officer whom he considers to be the perfect woman to carry on his dying bloodline. Once he hits Gotham, Maximillian has a series of fish-out-of-water ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,565 member
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  • Harlem Nights on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Richard Pryor,  Jasmine Guy
    Director: Eddie Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) became Quick's (Eddie Murphy) adopted father when an adolescent Quick saved his life. Twenty-five years later, in 1938, Ray runs the most popular club in Harlem, with Quick as his right-hand man. Before long, Bugsy, a white mobster (Michael Lerner) comes knocking for a ..read more »
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  • Beverly Hills Cop on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  James Russo,  Lisa Eichhorn
    Director: Martin Brest
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie Murphy rose to stardom as Axel Foley, a streetwise and brash young Detroit cop in this comic blockbuster that combined frenetic action, hysterical rough-edged comedy, and a chart-topping rock & roll soundtrack. When his best friend is murdered, Axel heads off to Beverly Hills in an effort to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 17,948 members
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  • Best Defense on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Dudley Moore,  Eddie Murphy,  Kate Capshaw
    Director: Willard Huyck
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Wylie Cooper (Dudley Moore) is an Army engineer who is convinced a new super tank he designed bears some faulty equipment. T.M. Landry (Eddie Murphy) is an Army soldier who tests Cooper's tank in a combat zone in Kuwait two years later. The action cuts back and forth between the past and present as ..read more »
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  • Eddie Murphy - Delirious on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy
    Director: Bruce Gowers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Strictly for adults, this video programme captures Eddie live in concert at Washington D.C.'s Constitutional Hall. Everything from unusual sexual fantasies to reliving the family barbecue is peppered with his singular brand of humour.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 3,021 members
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  • 48 Hours on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Nick Nolte,  Annette O'Toole
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A tough, super-jaded cop (Nick Nolte) springs a hard luck robber (Eddie Murphy) from jail for two days to help nab his former partners. They form a kind of friendship (based on mutual hatred) as they chase a trio of remorseless villains through the streets of San Francisco. Rounded characters and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 6,656 members
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  • 48 Hours - BLU-RAY Version (1983)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Nick Nolte,  Annette O'Toole
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A tough, super-jaded cop (Nick Nolte) springs a hard luck robber (Eddie Murphy) from jail for two days to help nab his former partners. They form a kind of friendship (based on mutual hatred) as they chase a trio of remorseless villains through the streets of San Francisco. Rounded characters and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 48 members
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  • Trading Places on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  Eddie Murphy,  Jamie Lee Curtis
    Director: John Landis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As the result of a bet between two wealthy commodities traders, the lifestyles of a street hustler (Eddie Murphy) and a blue-nosed employee (Dan Akroyd) of the brokerage are reversed. The innocent victims of the bet scramble to make it in their new foreign environments, with hysterical results. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 19,050 members
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  • Eddie Murphy - The Best Of Saturday Nigh... on DVD
    Starring: Eddie Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Gumby, Buckwheat, Desmond Tutu, Stevie Wonder and James Brown are just some of the inspired impersonations on show in Saturday Night Live - The Best of Eddie Murphy. Before hitting the big time in Hollywood, Eddie Murphy was already one of the most accomplished comedic performers around, as ..read more »
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Eddie Murphy - watch online


  • Vampire in Brooklyn to Watch Now (1995)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Angela Bassett,  Allen Payne
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: FREE
    Run time: 102 minutes
    Eddie Murphy's got the bite in this movie mix of bone-chilling horror and chill-out comedy directed by Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street). As the vampire Maximillian, the popular star is the most diabolical, dashing and definitely undead dude in the 'hood. To add to the macabre fun, Murphy ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 81 members
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Eddie Murphy facts

5 most recent films

Shrek Goes Fourth - 3.5 stars
Imagine That - 2.5 stars
A Thousand Words - 3.0 stars
Meet Dave - 3.0 stars
Norbit - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Trading Places - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Shrek - 4.0 stars
Eddie Murphy - Delirious - 4.0 stars
Shrek 2 - 3.5 stars
Eddie Murphy - Raw - The Concert Movie - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Imagine That - 2.5 stars
Shrek Forever After - 3.0 stars
A Thousand Words - 3.0 stars
48 Hours - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Shrek Goes Fourth - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mike Myers - 9 times - show films
Cameron Diaz - 9 times - show films
Antonio Banderas - 7 times - show films
Julie Andrews - 4 times - show films
Nick Nolte - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Brian Robbins - 5 times - show films
John Landis - 5 times - show films
Walter Hill - 4 times - show films
Raman Hui - 3 times - show films
Chris Miller - 3 times - show films